Example sentences of "out [prep] the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 2 | The World Cup limited the domestic appearances of the leading players so that an unusually high number of 103 turned out for the six first-class teams . |
| 3 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 4 | The survey showed that all the 46 county councils England and Wales , and seven out of the nine regional councils in Scotland , have switched to peat alternatives . |
| 5 | Make-up effects and melodrama straight out of the 1920s Yiddish theatre ? |
| 6 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 7 | In the 1760s most of England 's high-wage counties were in the south-east and the greatest concentration of low-wage counties was in the north ; by the 1790s , eight out of the eleven highest-wage counties were in the north and midlands and only three were in the south-east . |
| 8 | Hotels and catering are fifth out of the six industrial sectors . |
| 9 | EC Foreign Ministers , meeting in Brussels on Dec. 2 , decided to restore credit and trade agreements and to lift aid sanctions with respect to four out of the six Yugoslav republics ; Serbia and Montenegro were excluded . |
| 10 | BAT distortion : Seven out of the 10 leading merchant banks in the Acquistions Monthly league table of corporate finance activity were involved in the Hoylake bid for BAT Industries . |
| 11 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 12 | The document published yesterday shows that out of the 5.46 million offences reported in the 12 months until June 1992 , 1.29 million were burglaries , 931,000 thefts from vehicles and 572,000 thefts of vehicles . |
| 13 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 14 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |
| 15 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 16 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 17 | So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled , 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused . |
| 18 | On Feb. 23 in local government by-elections 692 out of the 1,053 contested seats were won by independent candidates . |
| 19 | In 25 out of the 45 main engineering export categories , Germany is the leader . |
| 20 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 21 | In a report presented to the Polish parliament , the State Inspectorate for Environmental Protection has stated that preparations are in hand to close down 100 out of the 800 industrial plants which were identified as causing dangerous levels of pollution . |
| 22 | Nearly all the schools responded to the request ( 34 out of the 36 liaison group schools and 30 out of the 33 second phase schools ) , but some of these did not provide all the information asked for . |
| 23 | Out of the 33 beautiful beaches on Anguilla , Shoal Bay is the most stunning . |
| 24 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 25 | A US company , Admiralty Pacific , touches two out of the three environmental bases , in making an offer to the Marshall Islanders in the Pacific . |
| 26 | Eleven out of the 12 available places were filled by participants from six local nursing homes . |
| 27 | Someone with the £10,000 maximum , assuming average luck , can expect to collect a prize in 11 out of the 12 monthly draws each year — a return of about 6.5 per cent . |
| 28 | At the time of the survey 7 out of the 12 local authorities had a health education policy which they were prepared to share with us . |
| 29 | However , their tests found only 2 out of the 183 possible risk premiums to be significantly different from zero . |
| 30 | Ah bring us number seven out of the seven good God bring me number seven excuse me |